Combat d'amour en songe does not mathematically builds itself through the 9-story combinatorics that it ludically presents, as it starts. The mathematical analysis is an image (the blackboard, later partially erased by the devil) for the narrative multiplication or copulation, and the multiple concentration of the stories within each scene, like a Thousand and One Nights vertically condensated in a two-hour film wich thus becomes a wheel that is put to spin five times, at the Introduction (the 9 stories,…